The Revenant (2015)

Deep in the uncharted American wilderness, trapper Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) is severely injured and left for dead by a traitorous member of his team, John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy). With sheer will as his only weapon, Glass must navigate a hostile environment, a brutal winter, and warring Native American tribes in relentless quest to survive and exact vengeance on Fitzgerald. Based on a true story, The Revenant is directed and co-written by renowned filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman, Babel).

The first trailer for The Revenant only recently hit the web, and it’s already looking to be one of the most highly anticipated films of the year. As it turns out, though, Leonardo DiCaprio’s trials in the wilderness are not over.

We're now only a couple of years removed from what's arguably Leonardo DiCaprio's mouthiest performance, as the guy pretty much never shut up through the course of Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street. In the actor's next film, however, he will actually be going in a completely opposite direction with his performance.

Inspired by true events, The Revenant tells an incredible story of survival, of fortitude and of vengeance, with Leonardo DiCaprio playing a frontiersman in the 1800s who must go after the men who left him for dead following a bear mauling.

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The Revenant, the upcoming ambitious outdoor epic by Birdman director Alejandro González Iñárritu is apparently a really, REALLY difficult shoot. The historical survival/revenge drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio has been shooting for six months in the rather inhospitable Canadian wilderness - but according to the director, it has all been working out as he originally planned. I

New photos from the upcoming film, The Revenant have been released giving us our very first look at Leonardo DiCaprio as real life early-19th century American fur trapper, Hugh Glass, whose famous survival ordeal involved fighting a bear, makeshift medicine and an insane 200 mile trek through hostile elements.

It's a good role for Tom Hardy given that, on paper, he seems like a villain. The guy ditches his buddy after scavenging stuff off what he thinks is his corpse. Dude, no solidarity. Bros before bears, homey.

Now that he’s done dancing at Coachella, Leonardo DiCaprio can get back to the business of acting. He appears to have circled his next gig, agreeing in principle to a September shoot for the gritty thriller The Revenant, the next drama from director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

Inarritu would like Penn to play one of the wicked men who abandon the mauled frontiersman. I wonder if that means DiCaprio, should he sign on, would play the bear victim who eventually muscles up and tracks the two fiends. Coming off of Django Unchained, this could be back-to-back badass period pieces for the Titanic pretty boy.

The Babel and 21 Grams director will adapt The Revenant, a revenge story set in the 1800s that was penned by novelist Michael Punke. The lead character is a fur trader who is mortally wounded in a bear attack. Though his partner, the captain of the lead's ship, attempts to carry the wounded man to safety, he eventually gives up and leaves his damaged friend to die.

Many people know Hillcoat from his period Australian western The Proposition, and it sounds like The Revenant might be a chance for Hillcoat to demonstrate those same skills for a slightly larger audience